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Human Protein Atlas Skill

openai/human-protein-atlas-skill

Submit compact Human Protein Atlas requests for gene JSON, search downloads, and page-level tissue or cell-line lookups. Use when a user wants concise Human Protein Atlas summaries; save raw JSON or HTML only on request.

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3
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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository
npx skills add https://github.com/openai/plugins --skill human-protein-atlas-skill

What comes with it

10 836 bytes besides the instruction
agents/openai.yaml
scripts/rest_request.py

The instruction itself

6 sections, as written by the author

Operating rules

  • Use scripts/rest_request.py for all Human Protein Atlas calls.
  • Use base_url=https://www.proteinatlas.org.
  • The script accepts max_items; single gene entry lookups usually do not need it, while search and download endpoints are better with max_items=10.
  • Re-run requests in long conversations instead of relying on older tool output.
  • Treat displayed ... in tool previews as UI truncation, not literal request content.
  • If the user asks for full HTML or JSON, set save_raw=true and report the saved file path instead of pasting large payloads into chat.

Execution behavior

  • Return concise markdown summaries from the script JSON by default.
  • Return the script JSON verbatim only if the user explicitly asks for machine-readable output.
  • Prefer these paths: <ENSG>.json, api/search_download.php, search/tissue/<symbol>, and search/cellline/<symbol>.
  • For page-level search endpoints, prefer response_format=text so the script returns only text_head unless raw output is requested.

Input

  • Read one JSON object from stdin.
  • Required fields: base_url, path
  • Optional fields: method, params, headers, json_body, form_body, record_path, response_format, max_items, max_depth, timeout_sec, save_raw, raw_output_path
  • Common HPA patterns:
  • {"base_url":"https://www.proteinatlas.org","path":"ENSG00000141510.json"}
  • {"base_url":"https://www.proteinatlas.org","path":"api/search_download.php","params":{"search":"TP53","format":"json","columns":"g,gs,tissue","compress":"no"},"max_items":10}
  • {"base_url":"https://www.proteinatlas.org","path":"search/tissue/TP53","response_format":"text"}

Output

  • Success returns ok, source, path, method, status_code, warnings, and either compact records, a compact summary, or text_head.
  • Use raw_output_path when save_raw=true.
  • Failure returns ok=false with error.code and error.message.

Execution

echo '{"base_url":"https://www.proteinatlas.org","path":"ENSG00000141510.json"}' | python scripts/rest_request.py

References

  • No additional runtime references are required; keep the import package limited to this file and scripts/rest_request.py.

How to use it

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